In his performance at Hidden Door Festival, Hugh McMillan will present a modern working of the classic Welsh poem the Gododdin. In the original, Celtic warriors venture forth to fight against the Saxons. In Hugh’s version, various personalities, passengers on the train, represent facets of post industrial Scotland on their way south to an uncertain and cathartic future. The train becomes the focus for the converging of narratives from past, present and future, the mingling of timelines, the sacred and profane, the real and imagined.
With eleven collections of poetry and many awards, history and landscape enthusiast Hugh McMillan has appeared at many literary festivals, most recently at the Wigtown International Book Festival in Scotland and the Edmonton Poetry Festival in Canada.
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Andrew Greig
